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As our knees and hips and eyesight deteriorate, we become more dependable, less impulsive, kinder, and less moody.

Angela Duckworth

The most important thing parents can do, although it’s not the only thing they should do, is model the behavior they want from their kids.
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Striving is exhausting. Sometimes I do say things like, ‘I wish I were not quite this driven to be excellent.’ It’s not a comfortable life. It’s not relaxed. I’m not relaxed as a person. I mean, I’m not unhappy. But… it’s the opposite of being comfortable.
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Grit may carry risk because it’s about putting all your eggs in one basket, to some extent.
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And I’ve discovered a strikingly consistent pattern: grit and age go hand in hand. Sixty-somethings tend to be grittier, on average, than fifty-somethings, who are in turn grittier than forty-somethings, and so on.
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Psychologists call this the maturity principle. My own life experience fits this principle to a T.
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I know that instructional time is a zero-sum game, but if we want kids to do well academically, it’s hard to imagine that happening if they don’t have some control over their attention.
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When people think of the word ‘drive,’ they often think you have it or you don’t, and that’s where we’re wrong.
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There are going to be peaks and valleys. You don’t want to let kids quit during a valley.
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There are so many things that kids care about, where they excel, where they try hard, where they learn important life lessons, that are not picked up by test scores.
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I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about my genes because I can’t do anything about them.
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Most people who are really, enduringly interested in something eventually find that it’s important, too – and important to other people.
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Longitudinal studies following thousands of people across time have shown that most people only begin to gravitate toward certain vocational interests, and away from others, around middle school.
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Nobody gets to be good at something without effort, no matter what your aptitude is.
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I was a good novice teacher, but I did the things that were obvious.
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I know a lot of CEOs who are looking for three- to four-year varsity athletes – not necessarily because these people are going to be doing pushups or spiking volleyballs in the workplace, but because they’re looking for that continuity, that person who was gritty about something.
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Maybe. But the reality is that our early interests are fragile, vaguely defined, and in need of energetic, years-long cultivation and refinement.
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